Melissa Whitley

Position:
Defender
Class:
Senior
High School:
Our Lady of Good Counsel
Hometown:
Silver Spring, Md.

At Princeton ? 2007 ? second-team All-Ivy ... started and played in 14 games ... scored first career goal, the eventual game-winner, in Princeton's 2-1 win over Dartmouth ... assisted on goals against Washington State and Sacred Heart in first multi-assist season ... 2006 ? started all 16 games ... assisted on Princeton’s goal against Cornell in a 1-0 win ... 2005 ? played in all 16 games, starting 11 ... had one assist, against Rider ... took five shots with two each against Loyola Marymount and Brown ... 2004 ? played in five games ... At Our Lady of Good Counsel ? lettered four times in soccer and twice in basketball ... was first-team all-state, all-conference and all-county ... Washington Post All-Met selection ... NSCAA Scholar All-America ... team was ranked in the Top 20 nationally all four years ... team was one of top two teams in D.C. area ... co-MVP of the state all-star game ... played for Bethesda Strikers club team ... Strikers won two state championships ... five-year Maryland state ODP participant ... selected for Region I team ... National Honor Society ... photo editor for student newspaper ... tutored math at local elementary schools and volunteered at local nursing home ... Personal ? born Jan. 10, 1986 ... daughter of Raymond and Linda Whitley ... father graduated from Howard; mother graduated from Elizabeth City State and earned master’s from University of District of Columbia ... father is a supervisory computer engineer for NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center ... mother is a senior commercial underwriter ... father led a team of software engineers in the development of on-board software for the Infrared Array Camera, the primary instrument on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility ... older brother Derek, younger brother Jonathan and late brother Raymond ... serves as a DJ on Princeton’s student radio station WPRB ... English major.

Year     Goals          Assists          Points          Shots          Pct.
2004     0              0                0               0              .000
2005     0              1                1               5              .000
2006     0              1                1               6              .000
2007     1              2                4               16            .062
Totals   1              4                6               27              .037